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Christian Korthals
Violoncello (Wild und Weit)
UES103036-141
Type: Stimme
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 4
Description
"Wild und Weit" (German: Wild and Free) is an hommage to the unknown, a journey through space and time, through undiscovered territory. Piano, double bass and drums introduce a timeless contemporary jazz theme in 6/8 meter. The piano develops it further into a solo over the changes. Meanwhile, strings have secretly entered the stage. They spin the music further into a fugue and a reflective cello side theme in 4/4. In the reprise, the strings take the lead. This composition wants to bring jazz and classical musicians closer together again, and shows that improvisation and written-out music have only been declared a contradiction in very recent music history, while they never really were. A recording of this music by the Composers' Orchestra Berlin is published on "Exoplanet" (JazzHausMusik JHM 299).
"The listener is further disarmed by conceptions of classical-jazz by 'Wild und Weit', a piece arriving with a complex, syncopated piano-bass-percussion that seems to dare the string section to arrive." (New York City Jazz Record, September 2024)
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Type: Stimme
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 4